Whitney Biennial 2026

Tickets available at tinyurl.com/2p9mt9za Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Kelly Akashi, Kamrooz Aram, Ash Arder, Teresa Baker, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Zach Blas, Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Leo Castañeda, Nani Chacon, Maia Chao, CFGNY (Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen), Joshua Citarella, Mo Costello, Taína H. Cruz, Carmen de Monteflores, Ali Eyal, Andrea Fraser, Mariah Garnett, Ignacio Gatica, Jonathan González, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Kainoa Gruspe, Martine Gutierrez, Samia Halaby, Raven Halfmoon, Nile Harris with Dyer Rhoads, Aziz Hazara, Margaret Honda, Akira Ikezoe, Mao Ishikawa, Cooper Jacoby, David L. Johnson, Kekahi Wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick), Young Joon Kwak, Michelle Lopez, José Maceda, Agosto Machado, Oswaldo Maciá, Emilio Martínez Poppe, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Kimowan Metchewais, Nour Mobarak, Erin Jane Nelson, Precious Okoyomon, Aki Onda, Pat Oleszko, Malcolm Peacock, Sarah M. Rodriguez, Gabriela Ruiz, Jasmin Sian, Jordan Strafer, Sung Tieu, Julio Torres, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Johanna Unzueta The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid atmospheric survey of contemporary American art shaped by a moment of profound transition. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, this Whitney Biennial foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease. Together, the works capture the complexity of the present and propose imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence. This exhibition includes a billboard across from the Museum's entrance on Gansevoort Street. Whitney Biennial 2026 is co-organized by Whitney curators Marcela Guerrero, the DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow.